Remember the other day when I was live-blogging “Lost” and I kept mentioning the Mets game, which ended with them shutting out the first place Phillies?
Well, apparently they were just getting warmed up. After having taken two out of three from the Yankees, they wound up shutting out the Phillies three games in a row. Twenty-seven innings of no-run baseball. The Mets haven’t shut out a team for an entire series since 1969, when they did it against (wait for it) the Phillies. They’ve gone from being in the basement to being two games out of first.
Of course, we’ve been at this sort of tipping point for the season before. The problem is that they then go on the road and promptly get blown out. They need to prove they can be a formidable team somewhere outside of CitiField. Now they head off to Milwaukee, so we’ll see if they can get it going against the Brewers.
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Given how the Brewers have been choking lately, beating them won’t really prove the Mets are formidable outside of Citi.
That doesn’t mean anything. The Mets got slapped around by the Nationals, and the Nats are in the cellar.
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The Red Sox usually get their butts (or their bats) handed to ’em by KC (case in point: tonight so far). It’s truly amazing how a team can dominate against good teams, and then get crushed by the teams at the bottom of the pile.
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How’s Bay been doing?
Well, they gave it a good run until the very last batter.
It’s a pleasure to see them playing good baseball again.
Speaking as a Brewer fan, I’m surprised and elated. The Mets have been on an admirable tear, don’t get me wrong, but Yovani Gallardo had (and needed) his best game of the season on the mound tonight against somebody as formidable as Santana and these Mets of the past few weeks. It seems it always goes around in baseball: Brewers beat the Pirates 20-0 last month, the Twins spanked us 15-3 last week. The Mets were bound for a shut-out (seriously: Yo is fantastic). I’m all for Peter Parker’s favorite team and respect anybody that can knock Philly down a few pegs, but the Brew Crew needed this tonight more than the Mets did.
The Mets are a .500 club. Nothing more, nothing less. They will be good at home, weak on the road, and streaky.
But when they play well, it can be something to see. And at the moment, they at least seem to have a good rotation, and that gives them a small chance of contending in the weaker league.